The Green Room | February 2014

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FEBRUARY 2014 Dear Music Colleagues Welcome to the first edition of The Green Room for 2014, featuring all the latest news and information from the Alfred Rental Library in Sydney Australia. In this issue we look at the prolific Graeme Koehne and his latest ventures, the works of Nico Muhly and Bryce Dessner, publisher news, repertoire inspiration and much more! Wishing you a successful 2014! The team at the Alfred Rental Library

Scores On Demand The Music Sales Group has completely revamped its perusal scores website. Over 2000 scores are currently online and available for immediate viewing free of charge. We will continue to add scores to include as many opera and orchestra scores as possible. And best of all, no registration is required anymore. Everything is instantly accessible. Check it out now: http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/OnDemand

At the Alfred Rental Library, our aim is to offer you – o Unparalleled service, knowledge and expertise to the performing community o Seamless dispatch and overseeing of materials o highest-level maintenance of library stock and review of the quality of materials o uncomplicated and supportive administration o very reasonable rental rates o detailed knowledge of repertoire and composers

o full encouragement of score perusal, without hefty administration fees o assistance with concert repertoire planning o HLMS library system, operated by fully-trained library and promotions staff, all of whom are dedicated musicians o a genuine desire to inform and assist the performing community, offering the personal touch in all aspects of the operation

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COMPOSER FEATURE

Graeme Koehne – As Prolific As Ever Photo: Melinda Parent Creative

One of Australia’s most performed composers, Graeme Koehne is showing no signs of slowing down. His innovative new theatre work Shadow Dreams, a collaboration between Terrapin Puppet Theatre and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, is designed to be performed in two cities simultaneously with the performance, linked by high-speed broadband. See an excerpt here http://www.terrapin.org.au/project/shadowdreams/ From Shadow Dreams two excerpts have been included in the recording The Magic Island, the latest recording from the deservedly famous children’s charity project Hush Foundation. http://hush.org.au/collection/volume/13/magicisland Graeme’s trumpet concerto High Art is receiving numerous performances due to championship by soloist James Morrison, including an upcoming performance 6 February 2014 at Adelaide Town Hall by the Australian Youth Orchestra conducted by James Judd.

Lastly, listen to this immensely enjoyable recording of Forty Reasons to be Cheerful. It was written for the 40th anniversary this year of the Adelaide Festival Centre, and performed here by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Arvo Volmer. This 7-min work is scored for a classical-size orchestra, and is available for hire immediately. Perfect as a concert opener for any occasion, and guaranteed to bring a smile to the audience! https://soundcloud.com/musicsales-australia/ forty-reasons-to-be-cheerful See Graeme Koehne’s complete works here www.graemekoehne.com/music

http://www.ayo.com.au/content/australianyouth-orchestra-with-james-morrison/gjgdxj Graeme has recently been commissioned to write a major new children’s theatre work for Theatre of Image based on David Malouf’s The Empty Lunch Tin, for premiere in 2015. He’s writing a work for oboe and strings to remember Guy Henderson, the former longtime principal oboe of Sydney Symphony Orchestra, which has been commissioned by oboist David Nuttall to premiere with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in 2014.

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To contact Graeme, please write or call Lyle Chan president@lylechanmusic.com 0430 787 515 To hire works, please contact Alfred Rental Library hire@alfredaustralia.com +61 2 8707 3612


Nico Muhly In September, Nico Muhly had no fewer than 5 major premieres! The Metropolitan Opera gave the US premiere of his opera Two Boys. The New York City Ballet Fall Gala featured the world premiere of Neverwhere choreographed by Muhly’s frequent collaborator Benjamin Millepied to his moody piece Drones and Viola. The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Westminster Symphonic Choir premiere a newly commissioned orchestral version of Muhly’s Bright Mass with Canons conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and featuring the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ. His original music is featured in the new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, starring Cherry Jones and directed by John Tiffany. And he wrote the soundtrack music for Kill Your Darlings, a movie about the early Beat Generation in which a young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) and William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) are entangled in the murder of Burroughs’ friend David Kammerer. Keep up to date with Nico Muhly’s compositions here: Photo: Matthew Murphy

http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/works/nico-muhly

Bryce Dessner Composer Bryce Dessner is better known to some as the guitarist from The National and Clogs who has also collaborated with Steve Reich, Philip Glass, David Lang, Sufjan Stevens and many others. If you’re enjoying Bryce Dessner’s new album from the legendary Kronos Quartet, then know our very own ACO Quartet is championing Bryce’s music in Australia. ACO Quartet recently performed at MONA FOMA in Hobart. http://mofo.net.au/events/mofo-eastern-sho/aco-quartet/ Check out Bryce’s entire catalog here: http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/works/Bryce-Dessner

Red Poppy Music One of the boutique publishers represented by Music Sales Group is the daring Red Poppy, who issue the music of the famous Bang On A Can composers – David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon. In the past 30 years, they have gone from being brash young composers to widely recognized leaders of American music today, all the while sticking to their fascinating East Coast style. There’s lots of news about them here (check out Michael Gordon’s Timber, especially): http://redpoppymusic.com/ The Green Room

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Bärenreiter Opera Editions OPERA: Spectrum of European Music Theatre in Separate Editions is dedicated to critical editions of outstanding works of European music theatre from the 17th to the 20th centuries. A total of 21 compositions of French, Italian, German, English, Scandinavian and Slavic origin is being edited. These include specific genres which have seldom been given attention in editorial undertakings until now and which present their own editorial problems, such as ballet, theatre music, melodrama or operetta. A new feature is the form of the presentation in so-called hybrid editions. While the scores appear in traditional clothbound volumes, the musical and textual sources, the editions of the dramatic texts, as well as the critical commentaries are prepared and presented on an electronic platform (Edirom). Thanks to this ability to access the underlying sources, the editorial decisions are completely transparent to the user. This special editorial access being implemented by OPERA’seditions uses the software Edirom, which was developed in a project of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) based at the University of Paderborn. All components of the electronic part are encoded according to the modern standard of XML. The text components follow the standard of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).

From Source to Edition With each volume there is a data carrier containing the edition of the text, the critical report, digital scans of the relevant sources, as well as a digitized copy of the score. All of these elements are linked with one another in many ways with the help of the Edirom software, which is provided. This allows the user, for example, to follow in detail the path taken by the editor “from source to edition” or conveniently compare the score, the libretto and the sources. Click below for more information https://www.baerenreiter. com/fileadmin/Domain/ User/Download_Allgemein/ Werbemittel/deutsch/ SPA277_Opera_2013.pdf

Zinfonia has been created by publishers to help musicians and librarians anywhere in the world research, ask questions about and order music for hire, rent or sale from their local supplier. With Zinfonia, one can freely and quickly search one of the largest databases of music performance repertoire and get into immediate contact with a local publisher’s representative, using a process that is the same for ALL publishers and distributors represented by Zinfonia. As the Alfred Rental Library is now a member of Zinfonia, we encourage you to make use of this valuable and time-saving resource. Registration is required to access many services provided by Zinfonia, free of charge. For more information or to register please visit www.zinfonia.com

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List of Publishers Represented by the Alfred Rental Library Current List of Publishers Represented Chester Music Ltd Novello & Co Ltd G.Schirmer Inc Associated Music Publishers Inc G.Schirmer Australia Pty Ltd Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen/Helsinki/New York/ Frankfurt Edwin Ashdown Ltd Bosworth & Co Ltd Sony/ATV Songs LLC EMI Music Publishers Ltd EMI Music Inc Unión Musical Ediciones Alfred Lengnick & Co Ltd Paterson Publications Editions Transatlantiques

Red Poppy Music Ltd Editions CHOUDENS J Curwen & Sons Ltd Carl Nielsen Udgaven, det Kgl. Bib University of York Music Press Alfred Music Publishing Lawson Gould Belwin Mills Music Warner Bros Entertainment Bärenreiter Verlag Kassel, Basel, London Alkor Edition Kassel Editio Bärenreiter Prague MWV (Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag Wien) Henle Verlag München Henschel Verlag für Musik Berlin Strauss Edition Wien Gustav Bosse Verlag Süddeutscher Musikverlag Heidelberg Société Rameau Paris Sikorski Musikverlag

Links to overseas publisher websites: Click on the following links to access our overseas publisher websites. Chester Novello http://www.chesternovello.com/ G. Schirmer http://www.schirmer.com/ Edition Wilhelm Hansen http://www.ewh.dk/ Baerenreiter/Alkor https://www.baerenreiter.com/nc/en/ Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc http://www.dunvagen.com/ Alfred Rental Library USA www.alfred.com/rental Hans Sikorski Musikverlage Hamburg http://www.sikorski.de

NEED SOME REPORTOIRE INSPIRATION

FOR CONCERTS IN 2015?

MAJOR JUBILEES OF RUSSIAN MUSIC HISTORY In the year 2015 we shall be able to celebrate and commemorate many jubilees of Russian composers ranging from the late romantic to the modern period: Anatoli Liadov (160th birthday and 100th anniversary of his death), Alexander Scriabin (100th anniversary of his death), Sergei Taneyev (100th anniversary of his death), Georgi Sviridov (100th birthday), Vladimir Yurovsky (100th birthday), Isaac Dunayevsky (60th anniversary), Dmitri Shostakovich (40th anniversary of his death), Alexander Lokshin (95th birthday), Andrei Eshpai (90th birthday), Andrei Petrov (85th birthday), Leonid Hrabovsky (80th birthday), Vladimir Tarnopolski (60th birthday) and Elena Firsova (65th birthday). Email us at hire@alfredaustralia.com for a listing of these composers’ works for your 2015 schedule planning.

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Recent and Future Performances

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FIRST PERFORMANCE

COMPANY

COMPOSER

TITLE

PUBLISHER

1/10/2013

Victorian Opera

Hans Zender

Winterreise

Breitkopf & Haertel

11/10/2013

Symphony Services International

Hector Berlioz

Les nuits d’été

Bärenreiter

11/10/2013

Symphony Services International

Hector Berlioz

Les nuits d’été

Bärenreiter

11/10/2013

Alianza Fiduciaria Fideicomiso Teatro Mayor

Paul Stanhope

Fantasia on a Theme of Vaughan Williams

Alfred Music Publishing Australia

12/10/2013

Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

Mark Adamo

Little Women

G Schirmer

12/10/2013

Symphony Services International

Witold Lutoslawski

Dance Preludes (3rd version)

Chester Music Ltd

14/10/2013

Ruthless Jabiru

Paul Stanhope

Qinoth

Alfred Music Publishing Australia

19/10/2013

Opus House

Philip Glass

Glassworks

Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc

20/10/2013

Bourbaki Ensemble

William Alwyn

Lyra Angelica (Concerto for Harp & Strings)

Alfred Lengnick & Co Ltd

25/10/2013

Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Aaron Jay Kernis

Invisible Mosaic II

Associated Music Publishers

25/10/2013

Hong Kong Ballet

Michael Nyman

Prospero’s Books: Concert Suite

Chester Music Ltd

25/10/2013

Hong Kong Ballet

Michael Nyman

Libertine: Suite for Orchestra, The

Chester Music Ltd

25/10/2013

Hong Kong Ballet

Michael Nyman

Drowning by Numbers for Chamber Orchestra

Chester Music Ltd

25/10/2013

Hong Kong Ballet

Michael Nyman

String Quartet no.3

Chester Music Ltd

25/10/2013

Hong Kong Ballet

Michael Nyman

Anne Frank Suite

Chester Music Ltd

25/10/2013

Hong Kong Ballet

Michael Nyman

Memorial

Chester Music Ltd

25/10/2013

Symphony Services International

Heitor VillaLobos

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4

Belwin Mills

26/10/2013

The Elder Conservatorium of Music

Witold Lutoslawski

Concerto for Orchestra

Chester Music Ltd

1/11/2013

Christchurch Symphony Orchestra

Malcolm H. Arnold

English Dances: Set I

Alfred Lengnick & Co Ltd

1/11/2013

Christchurch Symphony Orchestra

Malcolm H. Arnold

English Dances: Set II

Alfred Lengnick & Co Ltd

7/11/2013

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Jean Sibelius

Symphony No.7 in C Major

Edition Wilhelm Hansen AS

9/11/2013

National Capital Orchestra

Gustav Holst

Perfect Fool Ballet Music

Novello & Co Ltd

14/11/2013

Australian Chamber Orchestra

Edison Denisov

Five Paganini Caprices

Hans Sikorski GmbH & Co. KG

14/11/2013

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Manuel de Falla

Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Chester Music Ltd

15/11/2013

Central Coast Conservatorium

Gian Carlo Menotti

Help, Help, the Globolinks!

G Schirmer

16/11/2013

Camerata of St Johns

Graeme Koehne

Shaker Dances

G Schirmer (Australia)

22/11/2013

Symphony Services International

Witold Lutoslawski

Little Suite

Chester Music Ltd

23/11/2013

Hong Kong Sinfonietta Limited

Benjamin Britten

Simple Symphony

Chester Music Ltd

23/11/2013

Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra

Witold Lutoslawski

Concerto for Orchestra

Chester Music Ltd

23/11/2013

Symphony Services International

Christopher Tin

Baba Yetu

Alfred Music Publishing

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Recent and Future Performances FIRST PERFORMANCE

COMPANY

COMPOSER

TITLE

PUBLISHER

24/11/2013

SBS Radio and Television Youth Orchestra

Igor Stravinsky

Firebird Suite (1945)

Chester Music Ltd

25/11/2013

Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School

Christopher Tin

Baba Yetu

Alfred Music Publishing

30/11/2013

Penrith Symphony Orchestra

Gian Carlo Menotti

The Telephone

G. Schirmer

30/11/2013

Central Coast Conservatorium

Igor Stravinsky

Firebird Suite (1919)

Chester Music Ltd

1/12/2013

Penang Philharmonic

Richard Addinsell

Warsaw Concerto

EMI Music Publishers Ltd

1/12/2013

Melbourne Recital Centre

Howard Blake

Snowman (Concert Version)

Chester Music Ltd

1/12/2013

The Philharmonic Winds, Singapore

John Corigliano

Circus Maximus (Symphony No. 3 for Large Wind Ens)

G Schirmer

3/12/2013

Pymble Ladies College

Christopher Tin

Baba Yetu

Alfred Music Publishing

4/12/2013

MLC School

Malcolm H. Arnold

Flute Concerto No.1

Paterson Publications

4/12/2013

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Witold Lutoslawski

Cello Concerto

Chester Music Ltd

6/12/2013

Australian Chamber Orchestra

Henry Cowell

Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 5 (1945)

Associated Music Publishers

6/12/2013

Melbourne Grammar School

Stanley Myers

Deer Hunter: Theme (Cavatina)

EMI Music Publishers Ltd

6/12/2013

Melbourne Grammar School

Stanley Myers

Deer Hunter: Theme (Cavatina)

EMI Music Publishers Ltd

7/12/2013

Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra

Malcolm H. Arnold

Serenade for Guitar & Strings

Paterson Publications

13/12/2013

Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra

Manuel de Falla

Three-Cornered Hat: Scenes and Dances from Part I

Chester Music Ltd

13/12/2013

Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra

Manuel de Falla

Three-Cornered Hat: Three Dances from Part II

Chester Music Ltd

13/12/2013

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Gian Carlo Menotti

Introduction, March and Shepherd’s Dance

G. Schirmer

13/12/2013

Holy Trinity Church NZ

Gian Carlo Menotti

Amahl and the Night Visitors

G. Schirmer

13/12/2013

Opera Hunter

Gian Carlo Menotti

Amahl and the Night Visitors

G Schirmer

13/12/2013

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Franz Schubert

Ave Maria (Vocal Version)

G Schirmer

14/12/2013

Music Theatre Guild of Victoria

Alain and Claude-Michel Boublil & Schoenberg

Stars (large orchestra)

Alain Boublil Music Ltd

20/12/2013

Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra

Howard Blake

Snowman (Concert Version)

Chester Music Ltd

20/12/2013

St Andrew’ Cathedral Singapore

Christopher Tin

Baba Yetu

Alfred Music Publishing

21/12/2013

Orchestra Seventeen88

Franz Schubert

Overture in Bb major

Breitkopf & Haertel

21/12/2013

St Andrew’ Cathedral Singapore

Tin

Baba Yetu

Alfred Music Publishing

29/12/2013

Sydney Opera House

Igor Stravinsky

Firebird Suite (1912)

Chester Music Ltd

4/1/2014

Singapore Symphony Orchestra

Bright Sheng

Let Fly

G Schirmer

4/1/2014

Hsiao-Ya Music Co.

Giraud

Sous le ciel de Paris

Editions CHOUDENS

9/1/2014

Hong Kong New Music Ensemble

Michael Gordon

Weather

Red Poppy

11/1/2014

Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra

Messager

Fortunio

Editions CHOUDENS

1/1/2014

Fremantle Symphony Orchestra

Philip Glass

Satyagraha

Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc

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Recent and Future Performances FIRST PERFORMANCE

COMPANY

COMPOSER

TITLE

PUBLISHER

6/2/2014

Australian Youth Orchestra

Graeme Koehne

High Art - Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra

G Schirmer (Australia)

6/2/2014

Hong Kong Baptist University

Tan Dun

Concerto for String Orchestra and Pipa

G Schirmer

6/2/2014

Western Australian Charity Orchestra

Graeme Koehne

Elevator Music

G Schirmer (Australia)

7/2/2014

Symphony Services International

Tan Dun

Concerto for String Orchestra and Pipa

G Schirmer

7/2/2014

Symphony Services International

Tan Dun

The Triple Resurrection

G Schirmer

10/2/2014

Perth International Arts Festival

Edward K. (‘Duke’) Ellington

Best of the Sacred Concerts

G Schirmer

13/2/2014

ANAM & Soft Soft Loud Music Series

Bryce Dessner

Lachrimae

Chester Music Ltd

13/2/2014

ANAM & Soft Soft Loud Music Series

Bryce Dessner

Aheym for Orchestra

Chester Music Ltd

13/2/2014

ANAM & Soft Soft Loud Music Series

Nico Muhly

Step Team

St. Rose Music Publishing

14/2/2014

Camerata of St Johns

Johann Sebastian Bach

Goldberg Variations

G Schirmer

2/14/2014

Camerata of St Johns

Graeme Koehne

To His Servant Bach

G Schirmer (Australia)

20/2/2014

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

John Corigliano

Violin Concerto ‘The Red Violin’

G Schirmer

22/2/2014

Symphony Services International

John Barry

Best of Bond

EMI Music Inc

22/2/2014

Symphony Services International

Graeme Koehne

Unchained Melody

G Schirmer (Australia)

4/3/2014

Hsiao-Ya Music Co.

Witold Lutoslawski

Concerto for Orchestra

Chester Music Ltd

6/3/2014

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

Paul Stanhope

Fantasia on a Theme of Vaughan Williams

Alfred Music Publishing Australia

9/3/2014

Symphony Services International

Jean Sibelius

Suite No. 1 from ’The Tempest’

Edition Wilhelm Hansen AS

9/3/2014

Symphony Services International

Jean Sibelius

Suite No. 2 from ’The Tempest’

Edition Wilhelm Hansen AS

15/3/2014

Singapore Symphony Orchestra

Francis Poulenc

Histoire de Babar

Chester Music Ltd

16/3/2014

Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra

Nathaniel Stookey

Composer is Dead

Associated Music Publishers

16/3/2014

Tokyo Musikverein Symphoniker

Heitor VillaLobos

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4

Belwin Mills

21/3/2014

Symphony Services International

Hector Berlioz

Les nuits d’été

Bärenreiter

21/3/2014

Symphony Services International

Hector Berlioz

Les nuits d’été

Bärenreiter

27/3/2014

Singapore Symphony Orchestra

Johannes Brahms

Piano Quartet in G Minor

G. Schirmer

28/3/2014

Queensland Conservatorium of Music

Samuel Barber

Violin Concerto

G. Schirmer

Contact Us If you are based in the Asia-Pacific region and have any enquiries about hiring a work, please contact us by email at hire@alfredaustralia.com or call us at our Sydney office on +61 2 8707 3608. Our helpful music librarians and staff are ready to provide you assistance, informative suggestions and answers to your music needs. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need a Perusal Score, as we are also happy to offer you our perusal service.

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